Workplace advice: Poop emoji in rejection emails, hot-desking etiquette, and more
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Summary
A workplace advice column answering four reader questions: (1) Whether it's appropriate for a company to use a poop emoji in a job rejection email subject line, given the sensitive nature of rejection news. (2) How to handle hot-desking etiquette when someone is sitting at your assigned desk. (3-4) Additional workplace etiquette questions about boundaries and communication in professional settings.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI enjoy jokes at work, and am partial to self-deprecating humor, but recently I got a rejection email from a company that has a grinning poop emoji in the subject line.
Am I crazy for thinking that emoji just doesn't belong in any bad news email — especially one that people can take personally or can be hard to hear, like a rejection?
The job market sucks right now.
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